Possible and Probable Languages —— A Generative Perspective on Linguistic Typology

----- 具有潜力的或然语言：语言类型学的生成学观点

ISBN: 9780199274345 出版年：2007 页码：289 Newmeyer, Frederick J Oxford University Press

In this important and pioneering book Frederick Newmeyer seeks to explain the variety of languages. He combines the leading ideas of the functionalist and formalist approaches to linguistic typology, advocating principles of Universal Grammar to explain why some language types are impossible, and functional principles to explain why some grammatical features are more common than others.